16-Jan-2025 Argonne team delivers a 100x speedup of genetic data analysis from the Million Veteran Program DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Computer scientists from Argonne National Laboratory enabled a 100x speedup in the analysis of genetic associations that may be causal in disease formation using the world’s most diverse genetic biobank, the VA’s Million Veteran Program (MVP).
16-Jan-2025 Kennesaw State’s mHealth Research Lab brings critical healthcare research from lab to home Kennesaw State University Researchers in Kennesaw State University’s mHealth Research Lab are looking to innovate the healthcare marketplace by developing mHealth systems (apps) that can be accessed on a standard smartphone. The lab has been active in developing applications to combat unregulated screen addiction challenges among children and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to care for patients with Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease-related dementias.
16-Jan-2025 NASA’s Pandora Mission one step closer to probing alien atmospheres NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Pandora, NASA’s newest exoplanet mission, is one step closer to launch with the completion of the spacecraft bus, which provides the structure, power, and other systems that will enable the mission to carry out its work. Meeting 245th Annual Meeting
16-Jan-2025 Artificial imagination DOE/Brookhaven National Laboratory Kevin Yager, the Electronic Nanomaterials group leader at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN), has articulated an overarching vision for the role of AI in scientific research. It’s called a science exocortex — “exo” meaning outside and “cortex” referencing the information processing layer of the human brain. Rather than simple chatbots and scientific assistants, the conceptualized exocortex will be an extension of a scientist’s brain. Researchers will interact with it through conversation, without the need for any invasive brain-computer interfaces.
16-Jan-2025 National Heart Centre Singapore sets the stage to advance cardiac care at Singapore Live 2025: Asia's premier conference showcasing cutting-edge interventional technologies SingHealth The National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) is proud to organise Singapore LIVE (SingLIVE) 2025, Asia’s pre-eminent annual medical conference in cardiac interventions.
15-Jan-2025 Unlocking the power of high-dimensional simulations with STDE National University of Singapore Prof Kawaguchi’s paper titled “Stochastic Taylor Derivative Estimator: Efficient Amortization for Arbitrary Differential Operators” (STDE) addresses a critical challenge in AI and computational mathematics — efficient computation of derivatives for complex systems. The team’s innovative STDE introduces a scalable, efficient, and highly parallisable method to solve high-dimensional problems, significantly reducing computational demand while improving accuracy. In a demonstration of its prowess, the team solved a million-dimensional problem in just eight minutes on a single GPU, a task that would have taken traditional methods weeks.
15-Jan-2025 The Obesity Society applauds the work of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on Diagnostic Criteria of Clinical Obesity The Obesity Society ROCKVILLE, Md. -- The Obesity Society (TOS) applauds the work of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Commission on Diagnostic Criteria of Clinical Obesity to refine the definition of obesity and establish a framework for diagnosing other chronic diseases caused by excess adiposity. Several prominent experts in obesity and related metabolic diseases who are members of TOS served on the Commission offering scientific and clinical expertise. The Lancet Commission framework aims to address challenges with the traditional definition and diagnosis of obesity that impede clinical practice and access to care for people living with obesity. Given the complexities of obesity, this is an important first step in reaching a consensus on diagnostic criteria, many of which will inevitably undergo further clarification and modification as additional research emerges.
15-Jan-2025 AI fuels dramatic rise in electricity consumption - Finnish invention could solve the problem University of Turku Researchers at the University of Turku in Finland are developing microscopic memory resistors, memristors, that mimic brain activity, which could be the key to the growth in electricity consumption driven by artificial intelligence. A technology developed in Turku won two Finnish invention prizes this autumn.
14-Jan-2025 Having a mocktail instead of a cocktail could reduce your risk for developing 7 known types of cancer University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Alcohol is blamed for about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 cancer deaths in the U.S. every year. That’s more than the annual 13,500 alcohol-associated traffic fatalities. New "mocktails" can help curb the urge to drink.
14-Jan-2025 Argonne and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute partner to advance silicon sensor research DOE/Argonne National Laboratory Argonne National Laboratory and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, a Republic of Korea national laboratory, sign memorandum of understanding to advance silicon sensor research for the future Electron-Ion Collider.
